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Fetching AAPL Dividends with Python: Scraping vs Using APIs

Blog • api, apple, dividends, finance, python, scrapping, yfinance

Introduction Developers and finance enthusiasts often need to retrieve stock data programmatically for analysis or trading. Rather than manually copying values, we can automate data retrieval with code. Two common approaches are web scraping and using an official API. Web scraping means fetching and parsing an HTML page, while APIs provide a structured data feed. […]

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How To Check Stock Info Using YFinance

Blog • apple, dividends, history, python, splits, yfinance

When working with financial data in Python, the yfinance library is a go-to tool for retrieving stock information. One of the key components of yfinance is the Ticker object, which holds all the data related to a specific stock or company. But how do we know what data and methods are available to us within

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3 – Building a Portfolio Manager with Python: Refactoring and removing stocks

Series & Projects • apple, nvidia, portfolio manager, python, stocks

This post is part of a series of posts that we will go from complete scratch and build a portfolio management tool using Python. In the last post, we refactored the file organization and built a function for adding stocks to the “database”. Here are the previous posts in case you missed them: Plan for

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2 – Building a Portfolio Manager with Python: Adding stocks

Series & Projects • apple, portfolio manager, python, stocks

This post is part of a series of posts that we will go from complete scratch and build a portfolio management tool using Python. In the last post, we defined project choices and started to code, adding a database handler and a simple UI to work with. Here is the previous post in case you

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Using quantstats to compare your portfolio

Blog • apple, quantstats, risk, yfinance

In this post, we will talk about portfolios, how to compare your portfolio to a given benchmark, and how to analyze the risk within it, all using a great library in Python called quantstats. First and foremost, let us define “portfolio”. In the financial world, a portfolio is a subset of assets you choose. They

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How to do Algorithmic Trading with Python?

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Algorithmic trading, or algo trading, is simply a way to use computer programs to make trading decisions automatically. In this overview, we’ll explore the basics of algorithmic trading, focusing on Python as the language to make it happen. When we talk about algorithmic trading, we’re always talking about rules or setups to trigger the trade.

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